Mike Holmans

Two special cricketers, Broad and Taylor

West Indies can have a weaker-than-normal team and they can play badly, but they are still not “only the Windies”

A successful England Test team is a huge revenue-earner

But while Middlesex supporters have been ecstatic and Essex’s are no doubt pretending to their office colleagues that it’s just a blip and has nothing to do with them smashing their coffee mug, these games have involved little to please the neutral